Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915-Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses, Hydrographic Office For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; the preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference, and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office (act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, pp. 768, 769, sec. 1).. Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oreg.), Portland (Me.), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Ste. Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established (same act)...... For services of necessary employees at branch offices (same act).. Tabulated statement of classified employees at branch hydrographic offices. $26,000.00 11,000.00 Pilot Chart, North Pacific Ocean For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean showing graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Pacific coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice; the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation; the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for and printing and mailing the chart (act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 769, sec. 1)...... Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915-Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. Salaries, Naval Observatory-Continued. Foreman and captain of the watch (R. S., p. 27, secs. 167-169; acts Aug. 5, 1882, vol. 22, p. 245, sec. 1; Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 769, sec. 1) Carpenter (same acts).. Engineer (same acts). Three firemen, at $720 each (same acts). Six watchmen, at $720 each (same acts). Elevator conductor (same acts).. Nine laborers, at $660 each (same acts). Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses, Naval Observatory— Miscellaneous computations (act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 769, sec. 1)............. 5,000.00 NOTE.-The superintendent reports, under the requirements of the act of July 11, 1890 (Stat., 26, p. 268), that there are 43 employees of the observatory, none of them below a fair standard of efficiency. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid in advance), engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library (same act)...... NOTE. Nearly all books used in the scientific work of the observatory are books of reference, and in the administration of its affairs certain books of reference are indispensable. The change requested has been allowed most ot her Government libraries. For apparatus and instruments and for repairs of the same (same act) For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, freight Salaries, Nautical Almanac Office NAUTICAL ALMANAC OFFICE. For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, namely: One, at $2,000 (R. S., p. 27, secs. 167-169; acts Aug. 5, 1882, vol. 22, p. 245, sec. 1; Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 770, sec. 1).. Two, at $1,600 each (same acts) Three, at $1,200 each (same acts). Two, at $1,000 each (same acts). Copyist and typewriter (same acts).. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and NOTE. It is reported under the act of July 11, 1890 (Stat. 26, p. 268), that there are 26 employees of the Nautical BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING. Salaries, Bureau of Steam Engineering— Chief clerk (Ř. S., p. 27, secs. 167-169; R. S., p. 70, sec. 416; act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 770, sec. 1).... Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915-Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. Salaries, Bureau of Steam Engineering-Continued. The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1913, to carry into effect the various appropriations for "Increase of Navy" and "Steam machinery," to be paid from the appropriation "Steam machinery": Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1915 shall not exceed $37,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Statement of persons employed as draftsmen and for other technical purposes, and compensation paid to each, as required by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act approved Mar. 4, 1913. Salaries, Bureau of Construction and Repair— Chief clerk (R. S., p. 27, secs. 167–169; R. S., p. 70, sec. 416; act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 770, sec. 1). $2,250.00 Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915-Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. Salaries, Bureau of Construction and Repair-Continued. The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1913, to carry into effect the various appropriations for "Increase of the Navy" and "Construction and Repair," to be paid from the appropriation "Construction and Repair": Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1915 shall not exceed $88,300. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Statement of persons employed as draftsmen and for other technical purposes and the compensation paid to each, as required by the legislative, executive, and judicial act of Aug. 23, 1912. NOTE. The bureau was unable to utilize the limit of expenditures, viz., $88,300, for its technical force, authorized for the fiscal year 1913, per the legislative, executive, and judicial act of Aug. 23, 1912, because the naval bill, passed one day earlier than the legislative bill, failed to similarly increase the limit of expenditure for all classified employees. This limit was increased by naval act of Mar. 4, 1913, effective after July 1, 1913, and $88,300 is necessary for the fiscal year 1915. NOTE.-In the event of the abolishment of the Bureau of Equipment, the following employee (transferred from that bureau) should be appropriated for under the Bureau of Construction and Repair, making the total for "Salaries; Bureau of Construction and Repair, 1915," $59,650: 1 clerk of class E, $1,000. NOTE. In accordance with section 2 of the act of July 11, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 267), the bureau has to report that none of its employees is at present below a fair standard of efficiency. Salaries, Bureau of Ordnance BUREAU OF ORDNANCE. Chief clerk (R. S., p. 27, secs. 167–169; R. S., p. 70, sec. 416; act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 770, sec. 1)..... Ordnance engineer, mechanical draftsman and computer (same acts). Draftsman (same acts). Assistant draftsman (same acts)........ Clerks: The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to Jan. 1, 1913, to carry into effect the various appropriations for Increase of the Navy" and "Ordnance and ordnance stores, to be paid from the appropriation "Ordnance and ordnance stores": Provided, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1915 shall not exceed $13,083.76. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. NOTES. (a) There are no employees in the bureau below a fair standard of efficiency. (b) The nine employees shown in statement following are paid out of the appropriation "Ordnance and ordnance stores" and are borne on the rolls of the Washington navy yard. Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915—Continued. General object (title of appropriation), date of acts, references to Statutes at Large, or to Revised Statutes, and estimated amount required for each detailed object. Salaries, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts Civilian assistant (R. S., p. 27, secs. 167-169; R. S., p. 70, sec. 416; act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 771, sec. 1).. Two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each (same acts).. Clerks: Four of class 4 (same acts). Eight of class 3 (same acts). Twelve, at $900 each (same acts). Two copyists, at $840 each (same acts). Five assistant messengers, at $720 each (same acts). Messenger boys: One, at $600 (same acts). Three, at $400 each (same acts). One laborer (same acts).... Two laborers, at $600 each (same acts).. NOTES. (1) The bureau has no clerks who are below a fair degree of efficiency. (2) In the event of the abolishment of the Bureau of Equipment, the following employee (transferred from $2,500.00 4,000.00 7,200.00 12, 800.00 9,800.00 18, 000, 00 11,000.00 28,000.00 10, 800.00 1, 680.00 3, 600.00 600.00 1,200.00 660.00 1,200.00 BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Salaries, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery— Chief clerk (R. S., p. 27, secs. 167–169; R. S., p. 70, sec. 416; act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 771, sec. 1).. 2,250.00 Clerks: Two, at $1,100 each (same acts). Three, at $1,000 each (same acts). Copyist (same acts).. Assistant messenger (same acts).. Laborer (same acts). 3,000.00 840. 00 720.00 660.00 Driver for naval dispensary (same acts).. 600.00 Laborer for naval dispensary (same acts). NOTE. In conformity to sec. 2, act July 11, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 268), it is reported that there are no employees in this bureau who are below a fair standard of efficiency. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS. Salaries, Bureau of Yards and Docks Chief clerk (R. S., p. 27, secs. 167-169; R. S., p. 70, sec. 416; act Mar. 4, 1913, vol. 37, p. 771, sec. 1).... |